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<p><img alt="" src="http://www.clker.com/cliparts/1/n/Y/W/9/r/winner-ribbon-th.png" style="width: 62px; height: 99px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;" />Earlier this month the American Library Association announced their selection of&nbsp;outstanding books for children and teens.&nbsp; Selected by committees composed of librarians and other literature experts, the awards encourage original and creative work in the field of children&rsquo;s and young adult literature. &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ilovelibraries.org/booklovers/2015-youth-media-award-winners">http://www.ilovelibraries.org/booklovers/2015-youth-media-award-winners</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;Check out the list andstart reading the best of the best.</p>
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<script type='text/javascript'>stLight.options({publisher:''});</script>http://www.hcpl.net/content/award-winning-books#commentsAwardsKatyTeensSat, 21 Feb 2015 17:15:15 +0000Donatta C.17834 at http://www.hcpl.netBook Hunters in Brief #60: 2015 Newbery and Caldecott Award Readalikeshttp://www.hcpl.net/content/book-hunters-brief-60-2015-newbery-and-caldecott-award-readalikes
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.hcpl.net/sites/default/files/In Brief 60 - 2015 Newbery &amp; Caldecott Readalikes.jpg" style="width: 442px; height: 579px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; float: left;" />It has happened to all book lovers at one time or another: you finish a really good book and find that all you want to do is read another one just like it...only <em>different</em>. Sometimes you can just pick up another by the same author and plop down wherever you are to start reading. But what if there aren&#39;t any of books by the author? I know what I do.</p>
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<p>I visit HCPL&#39;s award-winning <strong><a href="http://www.hcpl.net/form/book-hunters-your-personal-reading-consultants">Book Hunters</a>. </strong>It&#39;s fast, easy and free.&nbsp;I answer a few questions about what I&#39;m looking for, and in no time, I get a custom reading list in my email inbox. Give us it a try.</p>
<p>This week, the <a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/02/american-library-association-announces-2015-youth-media-award-winners"><strong>Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners</strong></a> were announced and the Book Hunters offer a few readalikes to keep on deck for when your kid asks, &quot;What do I read now?&quot;</p>
<p>If your kid loved Newbery Medal winner, <a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=The+Crossover+kwame+alexander&amp;rw=0"><strong>The Crossover</strong></a> by Kwame Alexander, try these:</p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=sasquatch+paint+kareem+abdul+jabbar&amp;rw=0"><strong>Sasquatch in the Paint</strong></a> by Kareem Abdul Jabbar</p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=planet+middle+school+nikki+grimes&amp;rw=0"><strong>Planet Middle School</strong></a> by Nikki Grimes</p>
<p>If your kids loved Caldecott Medal winner, <a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=adventures+beekle+unimaginary+friend+dan+santat&amp;rw=0"><strong>The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary&nbsp;Friend</strong></a> by Dan Santat, offer them one of these:</p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=oliver+egg+paul+schmid&amp;rw=0"><strong>Oliver and his Egg</strong></a> by Paul Schmid</p>
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<p>While your children are devouring these, <a href="http://www.hcpl.net/form/book-hunters-your-personal-reading-consultants"><strong>Book Hunters</strong></a> suggest you sneak off to your computer and pay us a visit for your own personalized reading list.</p>
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<p>The National Book Critics Circle awards are given to 6 categories --&nbsp;autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.The award is judged by a panel of book review editors and critics and is one of the country&#39;s most prestigious awards.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Read the fiction finalists before the winner is announced on March 12!</p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=euphoria+lily+king&amp;rw=0"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780802122551/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 152px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />Euphoria</a>, Lily King</p>
<p>English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers&#39; deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance encounter with colleagues, the controversial Nell Stone and her wry and mercurial Australian husband, Fen, pulls him back from the brink.&nbsp;When Bankson finds them a new tribe nearby, the artistic, female-dominated Tam, he ignites an intellectual and romantic firestorm between the three of them that burns out of anyone&#39;s control. This novel is based on the true story of the life and work of anthropologist Margaret Mead.</p>
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<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=lila+marilynne+robinson&amp;rw=0"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9781410474001/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 158px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />Lila</a>, Marilynne Robinson</p>
<p>Marilynne Robinson returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church--the only available shelter from the rain--and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.</p>
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<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=An+Unnecessary+Woman%2C+Rabih+Alameddine&amp;rw=0"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780802122148/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 150px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />An Unnecessary Woman</a>,&nbsp;Rabih Alameddine</p>
<p>Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family&#39;s &quot;unnecessary appendage.&quot; Colorful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya&#39;s own volatile past. Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left. A love letter to literature and its power to define who we are, the prodigiously gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of one woman&#39;s life in the Middle East.</p>
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<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=A+Brief+History+of+Seven+Killings&amp;rw=0"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9781594486005/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 152px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />A Brief History of Seven Killings</a>, Marlon James</p>
<p>From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s.</p>
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<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=on+such+a+full+sea+chang&amp;rw=0"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9781594486104/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 152px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />On Such a Full Sea</a>, Chang-rae Lee</p>
<p>In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class, descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China, find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan&#39;s journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind.</p>
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<p>On December 2 the popular website, Goodreads, announced its 2014 Choice Awards. These awards are nominated and voted on by users of the site. Following is a list of some of the winners. How many did you read this year?</p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>FICTION</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=landline+rainbow+rowell&amp;te="><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9781250049377/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 153px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />Landline</strong></a>, Rainbow Rowell</p>
<p>Though they still love each other, Georgie and Neal&#39;s marriage is in trouble. Two days before they are supposed to take their two kids to Neal&#39;s family in Omaha for Christmas, something comes up at Georgie&#39;s job and she can&#39;t go. When Neal takes the kids anyway, Georgie wonders if their marriage is over. But when she finds a way to communicate with Neal in the past, she feels like she&#39;s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts. Is that what she&#39;s supposed to do? Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>MYSTERY &amp; THRILLER</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=mr+mercedes+king&amp;te="><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9781476754451/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 152px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />Mr. Mercedes</strong></a>, Stephen King</p>
<p>In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>HISTORICAL FICTION</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=all+the+light+we+cannot+see&amp;te="><b><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9781476746586/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 150px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />All the Light We Cannot See</b></a>, Anthony Doerr</p>
<p>When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth. Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure&#39;s converge. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>FANTASY</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=book+of+life+deborah+harkness&amp;te="><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780670025596/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 152px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />The Book of Life</strong></a>, Deborah Harkness</p>
<p>After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness&#39;s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:16px;">ROMANCE</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=written+in+my+heart%27s+own+blood&amp;te=&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle"><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780385344432/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 152px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />Written in My Own Heart&#39;s Blood</strong></a>, Diana Gabaldon</p>
<p>The latest book in the Outlander series,&nbsp;Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743.&nbsp;Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart&#39;s Blood in 1778. Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie&#39;s wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces. The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland, or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family&#39;s secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>SCIENCE FICTION</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=the+martian+andy+weir&amp;rw=0"><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780804139021/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 152px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />The Martian</strong></a>, Andy Weir</p>
<p>After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone on Mars with no way to even signal Earth that he&#39;s alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won&#39;t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old &#39;human error&#39; are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn&#39;t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills--and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit--he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>HORROR</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=prince+lestat&amp;te=&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle"><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780307962522/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 149px; margin: 4px 8px; float: left;" />Prince Lestat</strong></a>, Anne Rice</p>
<p>The novel opens with the Vampire world in crisis...vampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned... Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong, Kyoto and San Francisco. As the novel moves from present day New York and the West Coast to Ancient Egypt, fourth century Carthage, 14th century Rome, the Venice of the Renaissance, familiar&nbsp;supernatural creatures come together in this large, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious novel to ultimately rise up and seek out who--or what--The Voice is, and to discover the secret of what it desires and why.</p>
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<p>The National Book Foundation held its 2014 award ceremony on November 19th. Find the winner of your favorite category and take it home with you today!</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>FICTION</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=redeployment+klay&amp;rw=0"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9781594204999/LC.JPG" style="width: 66px; height: 100px; float: left; margin: 4px;" /><strong>Redeployment</strong></a>, Phil Klay</p>
<p>A collection of stories about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Redeployment is poised to become a classic in the tradition of war writing. Across nations and continents, Klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a soldier inhabits: one of extremes and one of loss.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>NONFICTION</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=age+of+ambition+osnos&amp;te="><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780374280741/LC.JPG" style="height: 100px; margin: 4px; width: 67px; float: left;" /><strong>Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China</strong></a>, Evan Osnos</p>
<p>From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy-or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don&#39;t see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">POETRY</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=faithful+and+virtuous+night&amp;rw=0"><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=0374152012/LC.JPG" style="width: 67px; height: 100px; margin: 4px; float: left;" />Faithful and Virtuous Night</strong></a>, Louise&nbsp;Gl&uuml;ck</p>
<p>You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it&#39;s the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight&#39;s undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you&#39;ve always known.</p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">YOUNG PEOPLE&#39;S LITERATURE</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=brown+girl+dreaming+woodson&amp;rw=0"><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780399252518/LC.JPG" style="width: 67px; height: 100px; margin: 4px; float: left;" />Brown Girl Dreaming</strong></a>, Jacqueline Woodson</p>
<p>Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.</p>
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<p>If you have been looking for a gateway into contemporary American poetry, the National Book Award finalists are not a terrible place to start. <a href="http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014_judges.html#poetry">Five poets</a>&nbsp; acting as judges have declared these five books to be &ldquo;the best&rdquo; of all poetry collections published this year, with the winner being announced at the black tie awards ceremony next Wednesday evening, November 19th at 7pm.&nbsp;</p>
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<a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=&amp;qu=TITLE%3Dthis+blue+&amp;qu=AUTHOR%3Dmclane+" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 102, 153);"><img alt="Cover Art: This Blue by Maureen N. McLane" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780374275938/MC.GIF" style="width: 72px; height: 108px;" /></a><u style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=faithful+and+virtuous+night&amp;te=" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);"><img alt="Cover Art: Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780374152017/MC.GIF" style="width: 72px; height: 108px;" /></a></u></li>
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<strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=faithful+and+virtuous+night&amp;te=">Faithf</a></strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=faithful+and+virtuous+night&amp;te="><strong>ul and Virtuous Night</strong></a>, <a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=louise+gluck">Louise Gluck</a></li>
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<strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=second+childhood+howe&amp;te=">S</a></strong><strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=second+childhood+howe&amp;te=">e</a></strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=second+childhood+howe&amp;te="><strong>cond Childhood</strong></a>, <a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=%22fanny+howe%22&amp;te=">Fanny Howe</a></li>
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<strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=&amp;qu=TITLE%3Dthis+blue+&amp;qu=AUTHOR%3Dmclane+">Thi</a></strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=&amp;qu=TITLE%3Dthis+blue+&amp;qu=AUTHOR%3Dmclane+"><strong>s Blue</strong></a>, <a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=%22maureen+n.+mclane%22&amp;qu=%22maureen+mclane%22&amp;te=">Maureen N. </a><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=%22maureen+n.+mclane%22&amp;qu=%22maureen+mclane%22&amp;te=">McLane</a></li>
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<a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=the+feel+trio+moten&amp;te="><strong>The Feel Trio</strong></a>, Fred Moten</li>
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<a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=citizen+an+american+lyric&amp;te="><strong>Citizen: An American Lyric</strong></a>, <a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=%22claudia+rankine%22&amp;te=">Claudia</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=%22claudia+rankine%22&amp;te=">Rankine</a></li>
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<p>And from the longlist:</p>
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<a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=&amp;qu=TITLE%3Dgabriel%3A+a+poem+"><strong>Gabriel: A Poem</strong></a>, <a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=%22edward+hirsch%22&amp;te=">Edward Hirsch</a></li>
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<p>Pray tell me your thoughts on this list, and check out our <a href="http://www.hcpl.net/content/national-book-award-ceremony-november-19">blog piece</a> on the finalists in the fiction category as well. Cheers!</p>
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<p>The National Book Award Ceremony will be held on November 19, 2014. The winner will be selected from the finalists, which were announced last month.</p>
<p>Read the fiction finalists before the award is announced!</p>
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<strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=An+Unnecessary+Woman%2C+Rabih+alameddine"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780802122148/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 150px; float: left; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;" /></a></strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/webcat/search/results?qu=An+Unnecessary+Woman%2C+Rabih+alameddine"><strong>An Unnecessary Woman</strong></a>, Rabih&nbsp;Alemaddine</li>
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Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family&#39;s &quot;unnecessary appendage.&quot; Colorful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya&#39;s own volatile past.&nbsp;Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left. A love letter to literature and its power to define who we are, the prodigiously gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of one woman&#39;s life in the Middle East.</li>
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<a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=All+the+Light+We+Cannot+See%2C+Anthony+Doerr&amp;rw=0"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9781476746586/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 150px; float: left; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;" /></a><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=All+the+Light+We+Cannot+See%2C+Anthony+Doerr&amp;rw=0"><strong>All the Light We Cannot See</strong></a>, Anthony Doerr</li>
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When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth. Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure&#39;s converge.&nbsp;Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.</li>
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<strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=Redeployment%2C+Phil+Klay&amp;rw=0"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9781594204999/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 152px; float: left; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;" /></a></strong><strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=Redeployment%2C+Phil+Klay&amp;rw=0">Redeployment</a></strong>, Phil Klay</li>
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These stories reveal the intricate combination of monotony, bureaucracy, comradeship and violence that make up a soldier&#39;s daily life at war, and the isolation, remorse, and despair that can accompany a soldier&#39;s homecoming. Redeployment is poised to become a classic in the tradition of war writing. Across nations and continents, Klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a soldier inhabits: one of extremes and one of loss. Written with a hard-eyed realism and stunning emotional depth, this work marks Phil Klay as one of the most talented new voices of his generation.</li>
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<strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=Station+Eleven%2C+Emily+St.+John+Mandel+&amp;rw=0"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780385353304/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 148px; float: left; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;" /></a></strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=Station+Eleven%2C+Emily+St.+John+Mandel+&amp;rw=0"><strong>Station Eleven</strong></a>, Emily St. John Mandel</li>
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One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor&#39;s early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor&#39;s first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.&nbsp;</li>
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<strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=Lila%2C+Marilynne+Robinson&amp;rw=0"><img alt="" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;isbn=9780374187613/LC.JPG" style="width: 100px; height: 150px; float: left; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;" /></a></strong><strong><a href="http://hcpl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/http:/search/results/?ln=en_US&amp;q=Lila%2C+Marilynne+Robinson&amp;rw=0">Lila</a></strong>, Marilynne Robinson</li>
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Marilynne Robinson returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church--the only available shelter from the rain--and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/alex"><img alt="alex awards logo" src="http://teens.hcpl.net/sites/default/files/Alex-AWARDSWinner_lowres_0.png" style="width: 229px; height: 225px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; float: right;" /></a>Whether you&rsquo;re a teen who already reads mostly adult titles or are a reader looking to explore the adult collection, consider checking out the <a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/alex">2014 Alex Awards</a>.&nbsp; This list recognizes 10 titles published for adult audiences, but with special appeal to teen readers.&nbsp; What have you read recently that you&rsquo;d recommend?</p>
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2014 Alex Awards</h4>
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<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Lexicon%20by%20Max%20Barry&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Lexicon</strong></a> by Max Barry</li>
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<strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=The%20Universe%20Versus%20Alex%20Woods%20by%20Gavin%20Extence&amp;index=.GH">The Universe Versus Alex Woods</a></strong> by Gavin Extence</li>
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<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Relish%20by%20Lucy%20Knisley&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Relish</strong></a> by Lucy Knisley</li>
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<p><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=midwinterblood sedgwick&amp;index=.GH"><img alt="midwinterblood bookjacket" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=1596438002/LC.GIF&amp;client=harrisp&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=" style="width: 167px; height: 250px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; float: left;" /></a>While many were watching the Grammy&rsquo;s last night, librarians and avid readers across the United States were waiting to hear the winners of the Youth Media Awards announced this morning.&nbsp; The Michael L. Printz Award recognizes excellence in literature for young adults.&nbsp; This year&rsquo;s winner is <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=midwinterblood%20sedgwick&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Midwinterblood</strong></a> by Marcus Sedgwick!&nbsp; The four honor titles are listed below.&nbsp; Are you surprised by the winner and honor books?&nbsp; What did you think was the best book of the past year?</p>
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<p class="rtecenter"><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=midwinterblood%20sedgwick&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Midwinterblood</strong></a> by Marcus Sedgwick</p>
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<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Eleanor%20Park%20by%20Rainbow%20Rowell&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Eleanor &amp; Park</strong></a> by Rainbow Rowell</li>
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<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=Navigating%20Early%20by%20Clare%20Vanderpool&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Navigating Early</strong></a> by Clare Vanderpool</li>
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<p>If you ask me, awarding prizes for works of art--whether they be books, movies or single malt scotches--is pretty silly, if not quixotic. I mean, how can we pretend to objectively declare something as complex as a novel or nuanced as a great pop song to be &quot;better&quot; than another when most of us have our hands full deciding whether M&amp;Ms or Reese&#39;s Pieces would go better with our Double Dutch Chocolate frozen yogurt?</p>
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<p>I&#39;m convinced these awards serve some Darwinian function. They tickle some mean little nub in our vestigial reptilian brains that demands winners and losers for everything from beauty pageants and presidential debates to thermonuclear wars. When it comes to the National Book Awards, I find it helpful to think of the process as cultural--rather than natural-- selection. Basically, we&#39;re choosing the writer with the most colorful plumage to ensure the continued survival of the species.</p>
<p><u>Fiction finalists</u>:<br />
<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=flamethrowers%20kushner&amp;index=.GH"><strong>The Flamethrowers</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=kushner,%20rachel&amp;index=.AH">Rachel Kushner</a><br />
<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=The%20Lowland%20Jhumpa%20Lahiri&amp;index=.GH"><strong>The Lowland</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=lahiri,%20jhumpa&amp;index=.AH">Jhumpa Lahiri</a><br />
<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=bleeding%20edge%20pynchon&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Bleeding Edge</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=pynchon,%20thomas&amp;index=.AH">Thomas Pynchon</a><br />
<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=tenth%20december%20george%20saunders&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Tenth of December</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=saunders,%20george&amp;index=.AH">George Saunders</a><br />
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Fiction winner: <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=The%20Good%20Lord%20Bird%20mcbride&amp;index=.GH"><strong>The Good Lord Bird</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=mcbride,%20james&amp;index=.AH">James McBride</a></p>
<p><u>Nonfiction finalists</u>:<br />
<strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=book%20ages%20jane%20franklin%20lepore&amp;index=.GH">Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin</a></strong> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=lepore,%20jill&amp;index=.AH">Jill Lepore</a><br />
<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=hitlers%20furies%20wendy%20lower&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Hitler&#39;s Furies</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=lower,%20wendy&amp;index=.AH">Wendy Lower</a><br />
<strong>The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832</strong> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=taylor,%20alan,%201955&amp;index=.AH">Alan Taylor</a><br />
<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=going%20clear%20lawrence%20wright&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood &amp; the Prison of Belief</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=wright,%20lawrence%201947&amp;index=.AH">Lawrence Wright</a></p>
<p>Nonfiction winner: <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=unwinding%20inner%20history%20america%20packer&amp;index=.GH"><strong>The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=packer,%20george,%201960&amp;index=.AH">George Packer</a></p>
<p><u>Young People&#39;s Literature finalists</u>:<br />
<strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=true%20blue%20scouts%20sugar%20man%20swamp%20appelt&amp;index=.GH">The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp</a></strong> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=appelt,%20kathi&amp;index=.GH">Kathi Appelt</a><br />
<strong><a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=tom%20mcneal%20far%20far%20away&amp;index=.GH">Far Far Away</a></strong> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=McNeal,%20Tom&amp;index=.AH">Tom McNeal</a><br />
<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=picture%20gone%20meg%20rosoff&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Picture Me Gone</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=rosoff,%20meg%20&amp;index=.AH">Meg Rosoff </a><br />
<a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=luen%20yang%20boxer%20saints&amp;index=.GH"><strong>Boxers &amp; Saints</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=gene%20luen%20yang&amp;index=.AH">Gene Luen Yang</a></p>
<p>Young People&#39;s Literature winner: <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=thing%20about%20luck%20kadohata&amp;index=.GH"><strong>The Thing About Luck</strong></a> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=kadohata,%20cynthia&amp;index=.AH">Cynthia Kadohata</a></p>
<p><u>Poetry finalists</u>:<br />
<strong>Metaphysical Dog</strong> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=bidart,%20frank&amp;index=.AH">Frank Bidart</a><br />
<strong>Stay, Illusion</strong> / <a href="http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&amp;aspect=subtab13&amp;term=brock%20broido%20lucie&amp;index=.GH">Lucie Brock-Broido</a><br />
<strong>The Big Smoke</strong> / Adrian Matejka<br />
<strong>Black Aperture</strong> / Matt Rasmussen</p>
<p>Poetry winner:<strong> Incarnadine</strong> / Mary Szybist</p>
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